Hi, I'm Paul...

Recruiter. Career coach. The person your friend told you to call.

I’ve spent 22 years inside recruitment. Agencies, career coaching and my own consultancy. I’ve made over a thousand hiring decisions and sat inside hundreds more. I know how they actually get made, what a resume needs to do, what an interview is really testing, and why most job searches fail before they’ve properly started.

That knowledge is not complicated. It’s just not available anywhere.

A few years ago a close friend left a corporate job after eight years. The role had become toxic, her contributions ignored, the environment eventually crossed lines she hadn’t expected to have tested at work. She resigned. Spent nearly a year working through it before she was ready to look again.

When she called me she thought she needed help with the practical stuff. Resume, interview prep, the mechanics of a search she hadn’t done in a decade.

She didn’t. Her mind wasn’t right. Her confidence was gone. She was terrified of rejection and couldn’t talk about her own work without apologising for it. We spent weeks on that before we touched a single document.

She found the right job. She’s still in it.

That’s the order that works. Emotional first. Technical second. Get the first one wrong and the second one won’t fire. Regardless of how polished it is.

Career Hijack is built on both. Seven courses. Every stage of the search. The details the people across the table from you already know and have never been obligated to share.

I built it because this knowledge shouldn’t only be available to people who can afford a personal coach or happen to know someone like me.

If you have questions, I’m at paul@careerhijack.com.